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Once you start to analyze these interesting creatures, you'll quickly learn quite a few impressive information. This turtle may grow up to 8 feet and it is the largest living ocean turtle on the planet. These fabulous animals are, regretably, on the endangered list.

As opposed to a number of other turtles that can be found, the leatherback has a soft shell, which is where the name originates. The shell consists of little bones, which are covered with a rubbery, hard skin providing the leatherlike structure. Grown up turtles are usually dark brown or black.

Young leatherback turtles have white markings on the flippers. This turtle can be seen in warm oceans, It is known, that they'll dive as deep as 4,200 feet. Awesome diving capability.

Female turtle will crawl to sandy shores in order to dig a hole for eggs. This can be the only occasion that these types of turtles arrive on dry ground. Females lay down nearly eighty eggs, then cover up them with fine sand and go back to ocean. After sixty days hatching is going to happen, where the youngsters make the way to the sea, to start with their life.

At this time there are reportedly more than 30,000 nesting world-wide, even so, merely one in a 1000 leatherback sea turtles mature to their adult years. Drop in figures is because of poaching and lack of nesting locations. Lots of turtles die each year, when feeding on plastic material trash floating in the oceans.

Leatherback sea turtles are classified as pelagic sea animals that forage in coast waters for food, and may migrate to other locations if they feel threatened. Generally, you can find these turtles from Norway to New Zealand. There are sub populations of the sea turtle in the Atlantic and also Pacific ocean Oceans. Simply speaking, there are few seas in which these kind of turtles can not be located.

Various nations around the world consider the turtle eggs as a delicacy, and in Malaysia and parts of the Caribbean they're regarded as an aphrodisiac. Eventhough these specie is actually protected, there are still individuals who hunt these animals. Turtles are well-known to have been around for over 110 million yrs, but this time they're in danger.

Leatherback sea turtles are hunted for meat, trapped in fisherman's nets and also pushed away from their own nesting areas. In 1970 the leatherback sea turtle has been added onto the endangered list. Lots of turtles have their own life cut short, way before turtles accomplish their typical age.

 
What exactly are sea turtles?
Sea turtles live in the sea. Sea turtles are regarded as the ancient creatures of the world. It is actually believed that sea turtles exists for a lot more than 100 million years.



Sea Turtles World wide
Sea turtles can be found in every sea throughout the world. Only exception is a icy Artic sea. Generally sea turtles are found in warm as well as shallow costal locations.


How are sea turtles different from land turtles?
Sea turtles have flippers instead of legs and shells streamlined for improved swimming. Sea turtles can remain with no oxygen for five hrs. Sea turtles are not able to withdraw their own heads and flippers such as land turtles can. So they are definitely more vulnerable to potential predators.

Sea Turtle Eating habits
Sea turtle eating habits varies from species to species. However in general they consume shrimps, crabs, plankton, seaweeds as well as ocean sponges.

Sea turtle details for the children:
Sea turtles can grow up to 2 m in total length.
Age of 80 years or even more is common for those sea turtles.
The largest sea turtles can easily weight more than three hundred kilograms.
For better diving, sea turtles have got streamlined shell.
Colors of sea turtles vary according to the specie. They usually are green, black, yellow...
Five hrs is a period of time sea turtles can be under water. Eating period is aprox. five minutes
In order to stay under water for so long, sea turtles slow their own pulse rate and therefore control oxygen consumption.
One of the intriguing sea turtle facts for kids is the fact that sea turtles migrates for lengthy distances which can be close to 1400 miles between the beaches they live and the feeding place.
It truly is sad to say that sea turtles are endangered species.

Baby sea turtle hatchlings
Due to the fact sea turtles live mainly underwater, it's challenging to understand their behaviour pattern. The knowledge of the habits can be gathered from that of the female sea turtle hatching observation. Female turtles come to the coast to be able to dig a nesting in which they bury eggs. Right after hatching from the eggs, a new baby turtle quickly makes its way to the water. Sea turtle lays close to 70 to 200 eggs. From march to october sea turtles will be in the mating time.
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It got its name after the red stripe directly behind its eyes and the way of how it slides into the water. Red eared slider is semi aquatic turtle which you can find in areas with fresh, peaceful and warm water source, for instance ponds, wetlands, streams and lakes. Most important meal source for these particular turtles is water plant life. Those turtles are quite fast swimmers.

This particular species is widespread species of turtles on this planet. There are various coloration morphs of the red eared slider turtle for instance albino, pastel and also leucistic.
Native environment
Normaly within U.S. it is possible to discover red eared slider turtle any where from Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico, along with the East Coast to western Texas. They will thrive in warmer environments, particularly the Southeast quadrant of america. The pet industry has expanded their range worldwide, frequently at the cost of native terrapins. Therefore, it is easy to locate red eared slider in suitable environments anywhere around the world.

The natural habitat will normally have a couple of requirements such as a water source, basking spot, correct plants and an area to nest. Water source should be calm, warm and quiet. Now there needs to be rocks to offer basking location. A muddy as well as soft bottom is preferred.

Young red ear sliders will feed on smaller sized prey for example fish, snails and also bugs as well as gradually focus on plant material. Adults diet is a lot of plant material. The environment is generally limited to area surrounding the water source. Turtles won't move far from freshwater environment.

Red Ear Slider Physiology
Shell of the turtle is split to top section and bottom section. Male use very long front claws for courtship as well as territorial confrontation. The claws of captive Red eared Slider are actually sharp and might very easily scratch skin.
Red ear turtles possess sharp beaks. Beaks are used to cut flesh and eat plants. Without teeth in order to break down food, they have adaptable throats to be able to eat huge bits of foods. When eating, these turtles have to be in water in order to swallow meals. If they discover food on land, they are going to carry it back to water to eat it.

Size of Red Ear Slider
They grow to 12 inches. In US. Is against the law to market red ear sliders which are smaller than 4 inches. Size cannot reliably reveal age. Turtles in captivity grow at much faster rate. This is usually result of over-feeding. Over-feeding can cause sickness.

Turtle Sexual Differences
Red ears in captivity usually get to sexual maturity between Two and 4 years of age. In the wilderness females develop fully until five and seven years of age. Males possess longer tails and really long claws, however females are usually bigger than males. Typically the cloacal opening on female Red-eared Sliders will not expand past the edge of the actual shell.

Red Ear Slider Turtle Color
Red ear sliders have green skin color with yellow-colored lines. A patch of red behind each eye gives the Red-eared slider turtle its typical name, although some sliders could be lacking this coloration. A few turtles may also have got a little spot of red on the top of their own heads.

Red Ear Slider Life-span
They can surpass 70 years.With proper home along with diet conditions, captive Red ear Slider turtles will survive for much longer when compared with their own wild counterparts.